“Everything we fear in the world and want to change can be transformed through happiness, the simplest desire we have, and also the most profound.”

Deepak Chopra

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Overcoming mental illness

Talk at the Regional Consumer Network, Auckland

Thursday 19 April 2012 10-11am

Kim will share what she learnt about managing and overcoming anxiety, stress and depression at the RCN monthly event.

 

http://www.rcnet.co.nz/en

 

 

HOLISTIC CANCER RETREAT

Understanding the role of symptoms in illness

December 2011 Auckland

Kim will be giving a presentation entitled 'Understanding the role of symptoms in illness'

 

at New Zealand's first ever Holistic Cancer Retreat®.

 

This retreat will be a unique experience looking at Cancer and its life lessons in a completely different Holistic Integrated way: blending the best of Natural Medicine, Natural Therapies,Diet, Nutrition, Mind-Body Medicine,Traditional Chinese Medicine& Ayurvedic Medicine

 

In the retreat organizer David Holden's words "It is now time for Holistic Cancer Support to come out of the closet and stand up and be counted".

 

For full details contact David Holden, Convenor, Holistic Cancer Retreat® 2011

 

Ph: Auckland 09 488 0208 www.davidholden.co.nz

 

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PAST EVENTS

THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN LUPUS AND GOUT

Why and how unresolved feelings may contribute to the conditions of Gout and Lupus

August 2011  Auckland

New Zealand Rheumatology Conference

PURPOSE

A proposal was accepted by the NZRA but was changed at the last minute and this seminar was not presented.

 

 

 

FIBROMYALGIA - GETTING TO THE CAUSE

Saturday 26 February 2011

Kelston Community Centre, Auckland

Address: Cnr Great North Road and Awaroa Road, Glendene

 

Kim will be one of 4 presenters on the topic of fibromyalgia.

 

During this presentation she will talk about:

 

• the role of emotions in disease
• the role of frustration and anger in the symptoms of fibromyalgia
• how the body communicates its needs via symptoms of pain
• how to start interpreting symptoms in order to reduce pain

 

Please note that Kim will be one of four speakers at the seminar:

 

Dr Mike Corkill, Rheumatologist

Angela Lowe, Pharmacist

Donna Leader, Patient

Kim Knight, Selfcare Health Educator

 

 

STRESS - THE SILENT KILLER

September 2010 AUCKLAND

at the Natural Health Conference and Expo

Venue: Aotea Centre, Auckland

 

Stress and anxiety are highly misunderstood and under-diagnosed psychosomatic states, and much of what will be said in this seminar may challenge your current concepts around ‘a certain amount of stress is good’. When our body is in a state of stress it has gone into the ‘fight or flight’ (sympathetic) nervous response. For some people this may be necessary when in a real emergency. However, in normal everyday living (and, with training, even during emergency), our body is designed to live in the parasympathetic nervous response. In layman’s terms this means the mind is calm and the body is relaxed. Only then can normal bodily functions such as digestion, elimination, hormone communication, clear thinking and very importantly, healing, take place.

Over time many people progressively come to function in a constant state of stress or ‘red alert’, which we could say has become an unconscious state of being. The detrimental effects of this are astounding, with some research studies saying as far as 90% of all health problems are stress related. In this seminar we will explore:

 

• why stress is at the root of so much disease and why it is critical to reduce and eradicate it from our lives

 

• how reducing stress surprisingly increases, rather than decreases, productivity

 

• how to spot the tell-tale signs of stress and interpret the messages the body is really sending us via symptoms of stress and tension

 

• simple techniques to bring our body-mind back into a place of peace and harmony so that with practice we can come to live permanently from this state...and reap the every day and long-term mental, emotional and physical benefits of doing so.

 

Details and registration: www.naturalhealthconference.co.nz

 

THE ROLE OF UNRESOLVED FRUSTRATION IN FIBROMYALGIA

Why and how unresolved feelings of frustration, anger and resentment build up to intense muscle pain in the body

August 2010  6-8.30pm CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Rheumatology Conference

PURPOSE

To show how the trapped emotions of frustration, anger and resentment manifest as physical symptoms and pain in the body.

METHODS

By reminding ourselves of the following:

 

• According to quantum physics, all matter as we know it is made up of vibrations of energy, and since the human body is matter, this must be true for it too. 
• Waves of emotional energy pass into the cells of the physical body, transiently altering their vibration, and consequently their physiological function.  This effectively starts to rewire the cells into a state of ‘dis-ease’.
• Primary or core emotions arise spontaneously, without any thought, as waves of energy that flow directly into our physical cells and immediately alter their physiological function. 
• The body-mind is one cohesive unit and unresolved emotional energy will build up to manifest as symptoms if that emotional energy is not dealt with.

RESULTS

Understanding that:

 

• Symptoms are necessary and intelligent communication from the body’s intelligence system communicating its needs to the person.
• If we can interpret the message beneath the symptoms AND take the appropriate action needed by the body, symptoms can be reduced and eliminated

When we understand and are aware of our emotional state, and can interpret and fulfil our body’s needs, we can reduce the state of ‘dis-ease’ or symptoms in the body.

 

Venue: Millenium Hotel, Christchurch

THE ROLE OF THE MIND (SHEN) OVER THE BODY (JING & QI)

Annual Acupuncture Association Conference, Wellington

Sunday 27 June 2010 Wellington

Topic: Shen is the master of Qi: transforming Ming (the body) with Xing (consciousness)

 

 

 

MICKEL THERAPY FOR FIBROMYALGIA

Presentation to Rheumatologists at Greenlane Hospital, Auckland

Monday 31 May 2010 AUCKLAND

Topic: The use of Mickel Therapy in helping clients heal from Fibromyalgia

 

 

UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION

Presentation to clients at Pathways

Understanding the deeper meaning of mental illness

Monday 8 March 2010  PATHWAYS

Presenaton to Pathways, specialist care for people with mental illness.